Barack Obama is answering questions on Reddit from 4:30-5PM ET

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Unfortunately the thread is crashing frequently and is in read-only mode due to heavy traffic, but I'm looking forward to seeing his answers to people's questions. Here's a cached copy of the page, but it's likely to be out of date.

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Something like 4k+ comments in under 20 minutes. Amazing. Too bad the tough questions won’t be answered. He’s only allowing for 30 minutes to answer any questions, which means, not much of substance will be answered. Though I’d love to see if Mitt Romney would even dare do the same.

I’ve noticed that, when there’s a big breaking story (funnily enough, usually about Obama), HuffPo sometimes gets more comments in a couple of hours on one post than we get on all of BB in a month. There’s an army out there, just waiting to fire.

Sure, but that’s not the whole of his risk expsoure. What if he answers a question and someone posts a reply that reframes the answer as propaganda? Suppose an incredibly racist question — or porn — gets topvoted as a question to ask?

It doesn’t matter to the media, to his opponent, or to the Republican Party in general what his role was in this event, or what he actually said. It’s gonna be guilt by association, and they’ll find some way to frame it that makes it his fault.

In fact, that’s virtually certain, no matter how well the Redditors behave. So I guess, on balance, it isn’t that brave after all. If he walks his dog tomorrow, the RNC will find a way to make that an act of gun-stealin’ socialism.

It’s very cool that he’s doing this, but while he did approach a few of the harder questions (e.g., decisions about the wars, jobs), I wish he answered the other hard ones about drug policy and the dissolution of our liberties. And there’s a massive question/answer ratio disparity.
But who am I kidding? +1 for being on Reddit +1 for Reddit gold, +1s all around

It is kind of hard to tell whether it was WITHIN the HALF HOUR that was scheduled, but it was definately within the hour of the first post. It’s a great start to having an internet ‘town hall’ meeting, but I believe more than half an hour to answer the publics questions should have been allotted. I know he’s a busy man, but it’s more tokenistic than helpful.